Needle Federated Search Engine
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has combined a number of technologies, tools, and resources to accomplish a new means of federating search results. The resulting product is a search engine called Needle, an open-source-based tool that the INL uses internally for researching across a wide variety of information repositories. Needle has a flexible search interface that allows end users to point at any available data source. A user can select multiple sources such as commercial databases (Web of Science, Engineering Index), external resources (WorldCat, Google Scholar), and internal corporate resources (email, document management system, library collections) in a single interface with one search query. In the future, INL hopes to offer this open-source engine to the public. This session will outline the development processes for making Needle's search interface and simplifying the federation of internal and external data sources.
- Short Name / Acronym:
- NEEDLE
- Project Type:
- Closed Source
- Site Accession Number:
- 4603
- Software Type:
- Scientific
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOEPrimary Award/Contract Number:AC07-05ID14517
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-05ID14517
- Code ID:
- 119491
- OSTI ID:
- code-119491
- Country of Origin:
- United States
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